Extracting representative arguments from dictionaries for resolving zero pronouns

• Main Authors: Nichols, Eric, Bond, Francis, Tanaka, Takaaki, Nakaiwa, Hiromi, Nariyama, Shigeko
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics; DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Japanese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79571; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6809
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We propose a method to alleviate the problem of referential granularity for Japanese zero pronoun resolution. We use dictionary definition sentences to extract ‘representative’ arguments of predicative definition words; e.g. ‘arrest’ is likely to take police as the subject and criminal as its object...